The Mithraic material documented in the province of Asia reflects the integration of the cult within some of the most urbanised and interconnected environments of the eastern Mediterranean. The evidence illustrates the circulation of Mithraic practices through commercial, administrative and cultural networks linking Anatolia to the wider Roman world.
People attested in Asia
Provinces of Asia
Asia
Asia formed one of the most urbanised and interconnected provinces of the eastern Roman world where Mithraic cults circulated widely.
Chersonnesus Taurica
Ancient region of the Crimean Peninsula associated with the Greek colonies and Roman presence in Taurica.
Places in Asia
Amorium
Amorium, also known as Amorion, was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine Empire, and declined after the Arab sack of 838.
Ariaramneia
A settlement of Cappadocia located within the inland communications network of central Anatolia during the imperial period.
Iconium
Iconium, modern Konya, became one of the principal urban centres of Lycaonia and an important crossroads of central Anatolia.
Pergamum
Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.
Pessinus
Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.
Susa
Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.
Uruk
Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near-East or West-Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq.
Ἀφροδισιάς
Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.
